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(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ... time for wetting and chemical interaction), and greater stress during drawing. The study reported in this paper proposes a hypothesis for each of these potential mechanisms and tests the hypothesis using ...

A Look Ahead: Sustainability and Other Hot Topics

(Archive)

January 30, 2007, ... disruption. An adhesive supplier with this capability is able to use its global purchasing capabilities to move key raw materials between regions to compensate for production disruption in emergencies ...

New Online Parts Store

(Archive)

January 27, 2007, ... sales order number, or bill of material number. They also will be able to pull up pictures and drawings of their machines. Sequence numbers labeling different parts of the machine will correlate to parts ...

Brand Protection with Micro-Dots

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... light in the required wavelength range is sufficient. The drawback of these inks is that they can be bought very easily on the market by anyone. There are other chemical tracers or ink additives providing ...

Color 101: Part I

(Process Management)

December 31, 2006, ... company has signed off on the color for its product, two basic areas have to be managed: raw materials and procedures. This will ensure repeat runs are on target and are produced efficiently, with low ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... for flexo plates is an “all-in-one” system with two HTD dryer drawers. Features automatic plate washout and cleaning; PLC-controlled sections; user-friendly touchscreen display for easy operation; rotary ...

Narrow Web What's Ne

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... HTD processing equipment for flexo plates is an “all-in-one” system with two HTD dryer drawers. Features automatic plate washout and cleaning; PLC-controlled sections; user-friendly touchscreen display ...

Sun Chemical Increases Prices

(Archive)

December 04, 2006, ... North America, effective January 1, 2007. "Despite our efforts to mitigate the impact of the rising costs in raw materials and fuel through active involvement with our supplier base and by driving internal ...

Outlook: Challenging

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Outlook:Challenging The release liner industry is at a pivotal point in its development with raw material and petrochemical prices continuing to rise, the increasing purchasing ...

A Call to Arms

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... our natural resources, generates effluent and emissions, and so on. Therefore, it is cheaper in today’s marketplace to use spent silicone-coated paper liners as raw material for paper-based products rather ...

Cure Cockling

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... plastic layer helps encapsulate the paper and protect it from drawing in the moisture. Another option is to use a higher basis weight material. Although 12-pt board is a paper-based liner, the heavy ...

Wayne Machine Delivers New Extrusion Film Technology

(Archive)

November 05, 2006, ... structures for subsequent testing while using small amounts of raw material, utilizing five-layer blown film stack-type die and a five-layer feedblock and cast film die. The line consists of three one-inch ...

Why Flex-Pack Keeps Growing

(Flexpack)

October 31, 2006, ... are the features of flexible packages that attract customers. As all the companies in the chain of suppliers—from raw materials to those that place something in a flexible package—continue their work on ...

Ink 101: Part II

(Process Management)

September 30, 2006, ... with UV or EB energy. These may be wet on wet or wet on dry trapped. For each ink type, the formulator is faced with making the optimum selection and balance of raw materials to come up with viable ...

Safety in Converting

(PLC Probe)

September 30, 2006, ... saw the location — it was simply a field. In the converting and packaging industry, the main safety concerns involve the raw materials, the processing equipment, and housekeeping and environmental considerations. ...

Rhodia Polyamide Increases Prices

(Archive)

September 26, 2006, ... Polymer range, and Technyl Compound. The adjustments are necessary to fall in line with the pricing policy led by Rhodia to compensate for the rise in raw materials, energy, and transport costs. See rhodia-ip.com. ...

Dow Increases Prices of Latex Products

(Archive)

September 24, 2006, ... sold into the paper industry in the U.S. and Canada. All prices will increase by $0.06 per dry pound. The increase is a result of continued escalation in all major raw materials including styrene, butadiene, ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

September 17, 2006, ...  660 3.3 2.7 ©2006 by The Freedonia Group Overall price advances will be restrained by the commodity nature of most products and moderating raw material costs, which will recover from the high ...

If China Were Not To Blame

(PLC Probe)

August 31, 2006, ... scapegoat. Indeed, this is true not only for packaging but for many other industries as well. When it comes to problems that relate to labor, raw materials, and cost, point to China. People see China ...

Dow Increases Prices

(Archive)

August 27, 2006, ... across North America for all polyethylene resins in response to rising raw material and energy costs. Resins affected by the price increase include all grades of low density polyethylene (LDPE) resins ...